Google files patent for 'wave-powered data centre'
15 Sep 2008
Google has filed a patent for an environmentally-friendly data centre, which the search engine expects to be powered by waves.
The £28 million data centre is proposed to be built off the coast of Cornwall, although the patent has been filed in the US.
Areas with growing demand for increased and faster internet services could benefit, as the floating data centres could be moved to such locations.
Data centres are expensive to build and access to power, high-bandwidth data connections and cooling water can be difficult to find, the patent said.
"We file patent applications on a variety of ideas that our employees come up with. Some of those ideas later mature into real products, services or infrastructure - some don't," a Google spokesman tells the Environmental Data Interactive Exchange.
Google inventors William Whitted and Gerald Aigner have previously been granted a patent for data centres that fit in shipping containers..
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